tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662354893678982752.post5447148718825765747..comments2023-07-31T01:11:16.619+10:00Comments on Being in Lieu: Their diurnal stars are all the shining holiesJAAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17069803445911906934noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662354893678982752.post-54821810775376588542013-12-22T13:12:40.155+11:002013-12-22T13:12:40.155+11:00The trilogy isn't so very different from '...The trilogy isn't so very different from 'Spurious' the blog, and I do think there is something missing in the experience of reading these pieces. Iyer himself would probably identify this something as the very thing he's pushing against -- writing's belief in itself as literariness since, as he puts it in his White Review manifesto 'Nude in your hot tub, facing the abyss, (a literary manifesto after the end of literature and manifestos)', 'we are all born too late for Literature'. And yet, and yet... There is an aspect of the great incisiveness and honesty of his fictional writings which is so aware of its gestural aptness that it works hard to avoid the possibility that, even now at this supposed other end of literature (which position I can't quite agree with as it suggests that our 'writer-ancestors' were little more than dupes, and also places someone like Krasznahorkai, by inference, in an odd position), incisiveness and honesty could still be turned into moments of reading that push beyond the nostalgia for Literature. That take us by surprise.<br /><br />Thanks for your comment, Anirudh.JAAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17069803445911906934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662354893678982752.post-74185226330446150262013-12-22T05:56:50.585+11:002013-12-22T05:56:50.585+11:00I'm yet to read Iyer's trilogy. I tried &#...I'm yet to read Iyer's trilogy. I tried 'Spurious' but it seemed to try too hard, which didn't work for me.<br /><br />Nice to see a new post.akhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15385267278249934192noreply@blogger.com